24 November

(UTC+1)

Events on this day in the life of Manfred von Richthofen

The red machines of the 'Baron' have arrived

Jagd in Flanderns Himmel, Karl Bodenschatz, Verlag Knorr & Hirth München, 1935??p. 57??

24 November 1917
Avesnes-le-Sec, Cambrai
Avesnes-le-Sec

“On 24 November, word seems to have spread that the “Baron’s” red planes have arrived.

There is no other explanation for the fact that remarkably few aircraft were visible on that day. Only a few English planes were observed far behind their own lines. This gave the squadrons of the wing sufficient time to set up at the new airfields in the Avesnes le Sec area.”

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